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Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part II: The Woman on p 194
One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. Here is the second of three posts that look these … Continue reading
Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part I: Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. Here is the first of three posts that look these … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 5
Tagged advertising, body image, magazines, Secret 3, Truth 3
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Lemony Snicket (well Daniel Handler) Talks About Being Lucky
I’ve been going crazy all day trying to find an article that I read back in 2004 in which Daniel Handler, the author who wrote the Unfortunate Events books under the pen name Lemony Snicket, talks about his philosophy of … Continue reading
Super Bowl 2012
A round up of commentary on advertising from Sunday’s Super Bowl. More tomorrow. Ad Age – Which commercials did best on social media?Beckham did best. Mother Jones & Storify – Which ads got not-so-great Twitter attention? A number of rather … Continue reading
Link Ch. 6 – War correspondent and journalist extraordinaire George Esper, RIP
NOTE: Updated with new video, 6/6/2014 George Esper died last night. He was 79 years old. He, along with Peter Arnett, was the last western reporter to leave VietNam after the fall of Saigon. And it seemed like he … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – Gutenberg’s Influence
Back in 1999, A&E’s Biography program profiled the top 100 influential people of the Second Millennium. They’re number 1 pick? Johanne Gutenberg. Can’t argue with that.
Link Ch. 5 Annie Leibovitz: Still a Dominant Image
I was debating today whether I ought to keep famed magazine photographer Annie Leibovitz as the opening vignette for the magazine chapter of my media literacy book Living in a Media World. sOn the one hand, I think that the … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – A History of Writing
Dr James Clackson, senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge, explains how we got our alphabets in this video slide show from the BBC.
Link Ch. 2 – Julian Assange & WikiLeaks
Read more about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: The New Yorker: No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency Rolling Stone: Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview Salon: Assange: Bond villain — or Bourne? The Economist: Missing the point of WikiLeaks … Continue reading
Cool Things From My Tumblr
I have a Tumblr blog where I post things that amuse me. Here’s a few recent posts that deal with the media world: The crowd sourced version of Star Wars Taken from a huge number of fan-produced films, recreating the … Continue reading